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been represented to you; but you have not been acquainted
with the unsurmountable difficulties to obtain them. _If you

had been informed of them, you would not certainly have
undertaken so dangerous and troublesome an enterprize. Take
my advice, and do not go any farther, and do not urge me to
contribute towards your ruin.
- Good father, said the princess, I have come a great way, and
should be sorry to return back again without executing my
design. You talk of difficulties, and of my running in danger of

my life; but you do not tell me what those difficulties are, and
wherein the danger lies, which is what I desire to know, that I
may consider on it, and know whether I have courage and
resolution enough to lead me to undertake it.
Then the dervise repeated to the princess Parizade what he had
said to the princes Bahman and Perviz, exaggerating upon the
difficulties of climbing up to the top of the mountain, where she
was to make herself mistress of the bird, which would inform
her of the singing tree and golden water; the noise and clamour

of the terrible threatening voices, which she would hear on all
sides of her, without seeing any body; and, in short, the great
quantity of black stones, the only objects most capable of
striking terror into her, or any other person; to reflect, that
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